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... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 32) December 1996 Last| Contents| Next Issue 32 We The Nation: The Conservative Party and the Pursuit of Power A. J. Davies Little Brown and Co London, 1995, £20 Colin Challen Davies provides in equal measure a perceptive and comprehensive account of the modern Conservative Party which, hopefully, will lead to further reappraisals of Conservative history. In contrast to, for example, Lord Blake's standard history of the Party over much the same period, We, The Nation provides an upstairs and downstairs view of the Party. Blake would have us believe that, with the exception of a few minor hiccups, the Conservative Party ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 408 - 01 Dec 1996 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue32/lob32-15.htm
... Politics In the early years of the Thatcher decade, the radical or 'new' right was generally treated as though it was a united palace guard for libertarian Conservatism. More recently it has become clearer that the radical right in Britain was, at best, an 'anti wet' alliance between authoritarian/ nationalist and libertarian/radical traditions within the Conservative Party, (1) united by their opposition to the dominant, mainstream tradition within the Conservative Party. Once Thatcher's position as party leader and then as Prime Minister, had been consolidated, it was inevitable that cracks would begin to show in this alliance. The formation of the distinctly authoritarian Western Goals (UK), in May ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 225 - 01 May 1991 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue21/lob21-03.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 45) Summer 2003 Last| Contents| Next Issue 45 Conservative Radicalism: A Sociology of Conservative Party Youth Structures and Libertarianism 1970-1992 Timothy Evans Oxford and Providence (USA): Berghahn Books, 1996, £10, h/b Why review a book published in 1996? Well, I received this recently, assumed it was current and didn't notice the publication date until I began to write this. In the early 1980s it began to dawn on people on the left of British politics- including this writer- that the Conservative Party was in the control of people about whom, and about whose thinking, they knew almost nothing. The ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 209 - 01 Jun 2003 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue45/lob45-40b.htm
... Paedo Files: a look at the UK Establishment child abuse network Tim Wilkinson 1: Conserving the Conservatives O n 24 October 2012, the Labour MP Tom Watson asked Prime Minister David Cameron about a paedophile ring centred on the Prime Minister's office at Number 10 Downing Street. Visibly discomfited, Cameron first affected not to know which former prime minister Watson might be referring to, then issued a bland assurance that the matter would be looked into. The allegations to which Watson referred do not fall in any grey area. They involve coercive, forcible and sadistic sexual abuse of unambiguously underage children trafficked from children's homes around the UK. The accused are not social outsiders or ordinary families ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 144 - 08 Jun 2015 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster70/lob70-child-abuse-network.pdf
... clearly signalled. And yet...how much analysis has there been of either the politics or the economic assumptions that propel our government of national unity? A good account of the political side can be found in Rob Wilson's Five Days to Power (Biteback, 2010) which provides a thorough look at the Cameron-Clegg negotiations. Although a Conservative MP, Wilson's narrative is not noticeably partisan (perhaps because he began his career in the Social Democratic Party [SDP]) and he provides some intriguing background detail on this episode in British history.1 But is there a comparable book on the economic arguments that underpin the Coalition? We might normally expect Her Majesty's Opposition to have something – ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 143 - 26 Jul 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster64/lob64-running-britain.pdf
... O'Hara was described as 'at the centre of attempts to destabilise Searchlight's intelligence gathering capacity.... [and] .... appears to have the disruption of the anti-fascist movement in Britain and parts of western Europe as his goal.' (p. 13) What, all on his ownsome? Yes, it's the Revolutionary Conservatives....One of the irritating things about the British left in general is the casual and generally inaccurate way the terms nazi, neo-nazi and fascist are chucked around. (This reached some kind of peak of absurdity in the Midwinter '93 edition of Casablanca in which the Libertarian Alliance was described as 'anarcho-fascist'!) It appears ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 116 - 01 Jun 1994 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue27/lob27-03.htm
... , supporting a limited form of European integration without British participation, was adopted.(2) The 1948-56 policy of 'limited liability', changed between 1956 and 1960 from 'partial engagement', participation in a British-determined integration process, to 'significant engagement', participation as determined by the original members, and ultimately to a decision by Harold Macmillan's Conservative Government to opt for membership. Having made the decision, Macmillan set about swinging the Conservative Party and the Commonwealth behind it. Between the autumn of 1961 and January 1963, a team under the leadership of Edward Heath negotiated the terms. Public support for European unification, including Britain, stood at 78 per cent in 1954. By ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 113 - 01 Dec 2002 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue44/lob44-03.htm
... with arms reduction, but to do public relations work for Reagan's policies. (Peace News 29/9 /83)*** Richard Viguerie, who was responsible for the European direct mailing campaign, is regarded as the Godfather of the New Right. He is the former fund-raiser for George Wallace and was the editor of the rabid Conservative Digest. His direct mail organisation dispatched anywhere between 7 and 9 million letters and raised three million dollars in an almost successful attempt to block Senate ratification of the Panama Canal Treaty. The umbrella grouping used then would be employed later against the Salt agreement under the auspices of the Coalition For Peace Through Strength (CPS-US). Viguerie's Fall ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 111 - 01 Feb 1984 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue03/lob03-03.htm
... Contents| Next Issue 27 Mrs Thatcher, North Sea oil and the hegemony of the City Robin Ramsay Introduction I began writing this in the early 1980s. If you were then reading the Guardian or the Observer, and knew a little, simple economics, it didn't take genius to notice that while the UK's manufacturing economy was being decimated by Conservative Party economic policy, the City of London was booming. More interestingly, and less frequently commented on, the UK economy as a whole was becoming self-sufficient in oil, without apparently gaining anything from it. Ah-ha, I thought, I smell a big rip-off. I wonder how it's being done? So I did a little digging ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 108 - 01 Jun 1994 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue27/lob27-02.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 48) Winter 2004 Last| Contents| Next Issue 48 The New European Order – judges, modernising conservatives and Tony Blair Tim Pendry Authority and order are back on the European political agenda. I want to put forward an hypothesis that readers can test against the facts. If I am right, then it opens up a new field of enquiry for parapolitical investigators. Let me state the thesis briefly: the need to create an international infrastructure of authority and an ideology to manage Europe is assisting in the creation of a new type of unaccountable elite. This is already, if slowly, becoming the dominant force at the centre of the European ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 103 - 01 Dec 2004 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue48/lob48-03.htm
